Other names and synonyms
elat, momordica elaterium.Description Source
Homeopathic Materia Medica – William BoerickePharmacological Group
Description
Squirting сucumber.
(ELATERIUM - ECBALIUM).
This is an invaluable remedy in violent vomiting and purging, especially if the evacuations are copious and watery. It is a very efficient remedy in certain forms of dropsy. Much yawning and stretching. вeriberi; choleraic conditions; urticaria and mental disorders coming on as a consequence of suppressed malaria. Irresistible desire to wander from home at night. Effects of damp weather.
(ELATERIUM - ECBALIUM).
This is an invaluable remedy in violent vomiting and purging, especially if the evacuations are copious and watery. It is a very efficient remedy in certain forms of dropsy. Much yawning and stretching. вeriberi; choleraic conditions; urticaria and mental disorders coming on as a consequence of suppressed malaria. Irresistible desire to wander from home at night. Effects of damp weather.
Gastrointestinal tract
Nausea and vomiting, with great weakness. Griping pains in bowels.
Watery, copious, forceful. Squirting diarrhoea; frothy, olive green, with cutting in abdomen.
Watery, copious, forceful. Squirting diarrhoea; frothy, olive green, with cutting in abdomen.
Limbs and spine
Sharp pains in fingers and thumbs, knees, toes, and instep. Gouty pain in great toes. Pain extends down extremities; pain in hip-joints with diarrhoea. Arthritic nodules.
Skin
Smarts, stings, and burns. Dropsical. Urticaria from suppressed intermittent. Skin, orange color.
Fever
Chill comes on with much yawning and stretching, lasting all through chill. Pain in extremities, darting into fingers and toes. сhills and fever, with spurting diarrhoea.
Modalities
Worse, from exposure on damp ground.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: вry; сroton; Gambogia.
Method of drug use and dosage
Third to thirtieth potency. As a hydragogue cathartic to produce free discharge in dropsies, Elaterin 1-20 of a grain. Palliative only.